Leviticus 26

1 Ye shall make yourselves no idols, neither rear you up for yourselves carved image, or statue, nor shall ye set up a figured stone in your land, to bow down unto it; for I am Jehovah your God.

“You must not make idols for yourselves or set up a carved image or sacred pillar; you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it. For I am the LORD your God.

2 Ye shall observe my sabbaths, and my sanctuary shall ye reverence: I am Jehovah.

You must keep My Sabbaths and have reverence for My sanctuary. I am the LORD.

3 If ye walk in my statutes, and observe my commandments and do them,

If you follow My statutes and carefully keep My commandments,

4 then I will give your rain in the season thereof, and the land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit;

I will give you rains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.

5 and your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing-time; and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land securely.

Your threshing will continue until the grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing time; you will have your fill of food to eat and will dwell securely in your land.

6 And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid; and I will put away the evil beasts out of the land; and the sword shall not go through your land.

And I will give peace to the land, and you will lie down with nothing to fear. I will rid the land of dangerous animals, and no sword will pass through your land.

7 And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword;

You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you.

8 and five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight; and your enemies shall fall beside you by the sword.

Five of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.

9 And I will turn my face towards you and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.

I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish My covenant with you.

10 And ye shall eat old store, and clear away the old because of the new.

You will still be eating the old supply of grain when you need to clear it out to make room for the new.

11 And I will set my habitation among you; and my soul shall not abhor you;

And I will make My dwelling place among you, and My soul will not despise you.

12 and I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be to me a people.

I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be My people.

13 I am Jehovah your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you walk upright.

I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians. I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk in uprightness.

14 But if ye hearken not unto me, and do not all these commandments,

If, however, you fail to obey Me and to carry out all these commandments,

15 and if ye shall despise my statutes, and if your soul shall abhor mine ordinances, so that ye do not all my commandments, that ye break my covenant,

and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,

16 I also will do this unto you — I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and fever, which shall cause the eyes to fail, and the soul to waste away; and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.

17 And I will set my face against you, that ye may be routed before your enemies; they that hate you shall have dominion over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.

And I will set My face against you, so that you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one pursues you.

18 And if for this ye hearken not unto me, I will punish you sevenfold more for your sins,

And if after all this you will not obey Me, I will proceed to punish you sevenfold for your sins.

19 and I will break the arrogance of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as bronze,

I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,

20 and your strength shall be spent in vain, and your land shall not yield its produce; and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.

and your strength will be spent in vain. For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.

21 And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me, I will bring sevenfold more plagues upon you according to your sins.

If you walk in hostility toward Me and refuse to obey Me, I will multiply your plagues seven times, according to your sins.

22 And I will send the beasts of the field among you, that they may rob you of your children, and cut off your cattle, and make you few in number; and your streets shall be desolate.

I will send wild animals against you to rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and reduce your numbers, until your roads lie desolate.

23 And if ye will not be disciplined by me through these, but walk contrary unto me,

And if in spite of these things you do not accept My discipline, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,

24 then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will smite you, even I, sevenfold for your sins.

then I will act with hostility toward you, and I will strike you sevenfold for your sins.

25 And I will bring a sword upon you that avengeth with the vengeance of the covenant, and ye shall be gathered together into your cities, and I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

And I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

26 When I break the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and shall deliver you the bread again by weight; and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.

When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.

27 And if for this ye hearken not to me, but walk contrary unto me,

But if in spite of all this you do not obey Me, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,

28 then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven-fold for your sins.

then I will walk in fury against you, and I, even I, will punish you sevenfold for your sins.

29 And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.

You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.

30 And I will lay waste your high places, and cut down your sun-pillars, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols; and my soul shall abhor you.

I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you.

31 And I will lay waste your cities and desolate your sanctuaries; and I will not smell your sweet odours.

I will reduce your cities to rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will refuse to smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.

32 And I will bring the land into desolation; that your enemies who dwell there in may be astonished at it.

And I will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who dwell in it will be appalled.

33 And I will scatter you among the nations, and will draw out the sword after you; and your land shall be desolation, and your cities waste.

But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.

34 Then shall the land enjoy its sabbaths all the days of the desolation, when ye are in your enemies' land; then shall the land rest, and enjoy its sabbaths.

Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.

35 All the days of the desolation it shall rest, [the days in] which it did not rest on your sabbaths, when ye dwelt therein.

As long as it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not receive during the Sabbaths when you lived in it.

36 And as to those that remain of you — I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, that the sound of a driven leaf shall chase them, and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth;

As for those of you who survive, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. And they will flee as one flees the sword, and fall when no one pursues them.

37 and they shall stumble one over another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth; and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

They will stumble over one another as before the sword, though no one is behind them. So you will not be able to stand against your enemies.

38 And ye shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will consume you.

39 And they that remain of you shall waste away through their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also through the iniquities of their fathers shall they waste away with them.

Those of you who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away in their iniquity and will decay in the sins of their fathers.

40 And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, through their unfaithfulness wherein they were unfaithful to me, and also that they have walked contrary unto me,

But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me—

41 so that I also walked contrary unto them, and brought them into the land of their enemies. If then their uncircumcised heart be humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity,

and I acted with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies—and if their uncircumcised hearts will be humbled and they will make amends for their iniquity,

42 I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.

then I will remember My covenant with Jacob and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.

43 For the land shall be left by them, and shall enjoy its sabbaths, when it is in desolation without them; and they shall accept the punishment of their iniquity; because, even because they despised my judgments, and their soul abhorred my statutes.

For the land will be abandoned by them, and it will enjoy its Sabbaths by lying desolate without them. And they will pay the penalty for their iniquity, because they rejected My ordinances and abhorred My statutes.

44 And yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not despise them, and will not abhor them, to make an end of them utterly, to break my covenant with them, for I am Jehovah their God.

Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject or despise them so as to destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God.

45 But I will remember toward them the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt before the eyes of the nations, that I might be their God: I am Jehovah.

But for their sake I will remember the covenant with their fathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am the LORD.”

46 These are the statutes and ordinances and laws which Jehovah made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai, by the hand of Moses.

These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws that the LORD established between Himself and the Israelites through Moses on Mount Sinai.